The last major primary night, August 28, before the November election was a major upset for former Rep. Gwen Graham but a victory for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

If Gillum defeats Republic Ron DeSantis in the Nov. 6 election, he would become Florida's first black governor.

Gillum's victory -- particularly in a state as crucial to the presidential primary and general election process – will have lasting effects.

Gillum is originally from Miami, Florida and is the son of a bus driver and a construction worker.

He was the fifth of seven children and the first to graduate from high school. He went on to attend a historically black college, Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and graduated with a degree in political science. He is 39.

Gillum's victory is the third major victory for a black Democrat in a Democratic gubernatorial primary field in 2018, following former NAACP president Ben Jealous in Maryland and state Rep. Stacey Abrams in Georgia.

After attending the fifth grade graduation and awards ceremony of my 11-year-old granddaughter at the second largest Christian school in Miami-Dade County, can you tell that "no race-mixing" was a thing of the past?

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